Behind Every Good Man Is A Great Woman - Or Three The Kaleidoscopic New Novel From Wally Lamb- The Number One New York Times Bestselling Author Of She's Come Undone. Every Monday Evening, Felix Funicello Sets Up A New Film At An Old Vaudeville Theatre For His Weekly Movie Club. But One Night, As This Sixty-year-old Scholar Prepares The Projectionist Booth, He Is Confronted By An Unanticipated Guest- The Ghost Of Lois Weber. Once A Trailblazing Motion Picture Director From Hollywood's Silent Film Era, Lois Invites Felix To Sit Back And Watch A New Feature On The Big Screen - Scenes From Felix's Life. Though Unnerved By These Ethereal Apparitions, Felix Comes To Look Forward To His Encounters With Lois. And As These Magical Movies Play Before Him, He Begins To Reflect On The Trio Of Unforgettable Women Who Have Profoundly Impacted His Life- His Troublesome Yet Loving Sister; His Generation Y Daughter; And Verna, A Fiery Would-be Beauty Queen From The 1950s. An Evocative And Kaleidoscopic Convergence Of Hollywood, Feminism And Family Secrets, I'll Take You There Is A Radiant Homage To A Single Life And To The Resiliency, Strength And Power Of Women.

Wally Lamb

London: Hutchinson

Random House UK

Harper

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, 2016

London, 19uu

"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he's confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit--and in some cases relive--scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema's big screen. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There's his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses. Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face"-- Provided by publisher

Hver mandag kveld setter Felix Funicello opp en ny film i det gamle teateret for den ukentlige filmklubben. Men en kveld, mens han forbereder filmvisningen, dukker det opp en uventet gjest - Lois Webers gjenferd. Lois, en banebrytende filmregissør fra den gangen Hollywood lagde stumfilmer, inviterer Felix til å lene seg tilbake og se en ny film på kinolerretet - scener fra Felixs liv. Selv om gjenferdet gjør han usikker, begynner Felix å se frem mot møtene med Lois. Og når filmene om han selv ruller over skjermen begynner han å reflektere over de tre uforglemmelige kvinnene som har påvirket livet hans; hans plagsomme, men kjærlige søster, datteren fra generasjon Y og Verna, en vakker kvinne som en gang på 1950 tallet drømte om å bli skjønnhetsdronning. "I'll take you there" er en roman om Hollywood, feminisme og familiehemmeligheter. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS

Film scholar Felix Funicello from Wishin' and Hopin' is confronted by the ghost of a Hollywood silent film director who invites him to revisit scenes from his past and gain insights into the lives of three women who indelibly shaped his life.

256 pages ; 24 cm
A "tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it."

2023-06-28